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Question 1

what does descartes say about the truth?

Answer 1

innate ideas help us find the truth

Question 2

what does descartes say about the body and soul?

Answer 2

the physical body is mechanical, there is an immaterial soul with the function for thinking

Question 3

what is john locke’s view on the mind and the external world?

Answer 3

there is correspondence between the mind and objects in the external world

Question 4

what does john locke say about ideas?

Answer 4

there are no innate ideas, everything arrives via senses

Question 5

what does john locke say about reasoning?

Answer 5

combinations of ideas are achieved through reasoning

Question 6

what does wundt say about the mind?

Answer 6

there is an active mind that cannot be observed

Question 7

what is kunt’s view on knowledge?

Answer 7

all knowledge comes from experience

Question 8

what does kant say about space, time and causality?

Answer 8

they are added to experience by the mind to make experience possible

Question 9

what is schopenhauer’s theory of ‘the will’?

Answer 9

rationality is a thin veneer with an underlying raging, irrational energy called the ‘the will’

Question 10

what does schopenhauer say about experience?

Answer 10

we experience things in multiple phenomena

Question 11

what does hume say about the existence of an outside world?

Answer 11

there is no evidence for an outside world, causality, or self

Question 12

what is hume’s theory on experience?

Answer 12

sense info is all we have

Question 13

how does hume say we find truth?

Answer 13

find truth by tracing idea to impression

Question 14

what is berkeley’s theory on experience?

Answer 14

sense info is all we have

Question 15

what is berkeleys view on the existence of an outside world?

Answer 15

there is no reason to assume there is an outside world